To Be Hero

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Synonyms: Tu Bian Ying Xiong Baba, 凸变英雄 BABA

Japanese: TO BE HERO

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Type: TV

Episodes: 12

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Oct 5, 2016 to Dec 21, 2016

Premiered: Fall 2016

Broadcast: Wednesdays at 18:45 (JST)

Producers: Emon, LAN Studio

Licensors: Discotek Media

Studios: Haoliners Animation League

Source: Original

Genre: Comedy

Duration: 11 min. per ep.

Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

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Score: 6.96¹ (scored by 27,754 users)

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Ranked: #4129²

² based on the top anime page. Please note that 'Not yet aired' and 'R18+' titles are excluded.

Popularity: #2602

Members: 61,436

Favorites: 168

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For Uncle, a lecherous but handsome toilet designer, it is just an ordinary day of neglecting his duties as a single parent to hit on women and talk about his "superpower": his ability to tell a lady's hip size at a glance. But when he is sucked down into a toilet, the Space Peace Republic Alliance Hero Committee gives him real superpowers, and he becomes the hero of Earth. There is only one problem—he has become an ugly, unrecognizable fatty who is unable to reveal his real identity.

Uncle's beloved daughter Min-chan does not believe that such a vulgar fatty could be her father, and casts him out of his own home. Distraught and homeless, he joins up with his perverted neighbor Yamada-san, a small man with a fondness for streaking, and sets out to convince Min-chan that he is her father.

Full of sexual innuendo and slapstick humor, To Be Hero follows Uncle as he befriends bizarre allies and combats even more bizarre foes, fighting for the future of earth against aliens and—more importantly—his future with his daughter.

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Tu Bian Ying Xiong Leaf

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Characters & Voice Actors

Uncle

Main

Tsuda, Kenjirou
Japanese

Yamada-san

Supporting

Aoyama, Yutaka
Japanese

Jiang, Chenmin

Supporting

Tsukino, Moa
Japanese

Prince

Supporting

Sugita, Tomokazu
Japanese

Alien

Supporting

Maeda, Takeshi
Japanese

First Prince

Supporting

Inoue, Kazuhiko
Japanese

Great Emperor

Supporting

Iizuka, Shouzou
Japanese

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Li, Haoling

Director, Script, Storyboard, Editing, Series Composition, Creator

Muramatsu, Hisashi

Sound Director

LAN

Episode Director, Character Design, Key Animation, Color Design, Chief Animation Director

Watanabe, Shinichi

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Opening Theme

"Ainikoiyo (アイニコイヨ)" by BRATS

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Ending Theme

"Watashi no Papa ga Chikyuu o Mamoru (私のパパが地球を守る ~我爹守护地球~)" by Kazuyo Lin

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Dec 21, 2016

Scholek

Recommended

*** General Points ***
At 11 minutes an episode for 12 episodes, this show ends up being roughly the length of a movie.

From the audacious (and perverse) characters and sometimes immature humor it isn't a show for everyone, but if by episode 4 you haven't been repulsed, then you will most likely continue to enjoy the show.

By far, the greatest part about this show is the ending theme song, which is infinitely catchy. I would recommend spending the 1 minute of life on youtubing it. Even if you have no intention of watching the show it would be a pity to pass up that ...

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Jan 2, 2017

ocorena

Recommended

To Be Hero is a very interesting anime. A lot of people will be turned off from this show because of the flavor of the humor, the extremely weird/out there plot/premise, and the unattractiveness of many of the character designs. I truly believe there's something special here though.

Even though this show is a comedy, and I would agree comedy is the best genre to put it in, the comedy is not the reason I think so highly of this show and the comedy is not the reason I would recommend this show. You will know pretty quickly if the humor in this show is for ... you or not, however it's hard to nail down what's good about the humor because the reasons I'm sure some people dislike the humor are the same reasons some people like the humor.

The art, sound, and animation in this show are all great, not incredible or otherwise mindblowing or outsanding, but defintely great. Every character's design is unique, the animation is never low quality (in fact there's some very high quality animation at the end of the show), and the music fits everything perfectly although no one track besides maybe the ending theme really stands out or is overly memorable.

The story and characters are the highlight of this show, and are the reason I enjoyed it so much I'm sitting here still thinking about the show and writing a review for it days after finishing it. While the plot can be hard to follow at times, it is never so out there that you can't follow it. The story is a lot more about Ossan's relationship with and protection of his daughter than the synopsis would have you believe. Underneath the humor is a great story about a father and his daughter and the interesting people around them every day. The main cast in this show all do a great job of making you care about them. I never thought I'd care so much about a creepy pervert neighbor or a computer alien that has access to all the knowledge in the universe. I was always on Ossan's side and wanted to see him succeed in everything he attempted, I wanted Min-chan to be happy, i wanted the alien prince to be happy, I liked everyone a ton and even in all the absurdity the show made sure everyone in the main cast developed and were believable in their actions.

As I end off this review, I should say that the number 1 thing this show did right and that it does better than almost any other anime is endings. The end of almost every episode was a very well done cliffhanger that both made you really want to see what was going to happen next and was immediately resolved/addressed next episode. The ending of the entire show was fantastic as well, everything wrapped up in a way that was satisfying and really concluded the story. The final episodes of this show reminded me a lot of why I like anime, and the ending tied everything up perfectly in my eyes.

If you've read everything up to now you might have forgotten this show was a comedy for a split second during my gushing, but that's the beauty of it. I was laughing the whole way through, but by the end I was truly invested in this story and it could not have ended more perfectly. Episodes are only roughly 10 minutes long each, which means at 12 episodes the full run time of this show is only about 2 hours. If you watch this show I highly recommend you treat it like a movie and watch it all in 1 sitting, and if you can manage I also recommend watching it with friends who can get caught up in this masterpiece with you.

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Dec 21, 2016

Saburo-Inomata

Recommended

This is my first time writing a review and to be honest i enjoyed this anime it was really funny and the characters were really funny even if they had like 1 minute of screen time.However the ending to this anime was quite confusing (spoiler incoming) like when they said it was actually a other universe or something i was really confused but overall i really enjoyed this anime and looked forward to every next episode with full hype. I also think they should have added a little more episodes like 3 or 2 more but it did end with a fantastic but confusing ...

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